The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-05-12
A Forclble Presentation.

At dinner of the Massachusetts, Club. at
Boston, on the 10th instant. Senator lioar after
reviewing the recent record of the Democratic
party and its Jack of any definite policy, in
conclusion spoke as follows:
On the other hand. the Republican party has
a very clear, hxed definite opinion and pur-
pose which they are reauy TO announce. They
agree that great surplus in the treasury is an
evil. it takes from the people by taxation
money which should moi be taken from them,
and 1t keeps from circulation money which The
people should be using. We propose TO DO away
with this surplus first, by diminishing the
taxation which puts into the treasury; and sec
ond by extending on necessary public objects
ahe money which is already there. We propose
30 tab off the duty on every imported article
syhich enters into an American manu- iactuie
a material or as necessary article OF con-
sumption for the American people. which can
not proftaply be produced here. Where any
article can be proitably produced here, and
American labor is supported by its production,
we propose to keep the duty on and reserve the
We propose to maintain the pulley whch has
created our existing system OF manufacture,
and mean that it shall in the South and ALI over
the country foster new manufactures. We pro-
pose, further to reduce the revenue by dimin-
ishing or totally ablogating the tax on lobac-
co. We propose to expend the accumulated
money in the treasury by constructing a navy
by providing fit defences for our coast cities:
by helping to establish and put upon their feet
systems subject wholly to local control, OF
common school education for our llAterate
population. without regard 10 race or previous
condition. by enlaTglng and perfecting our
commercial systefn at home and abroad +; by
giving reasonable encouragement 10 The estab
IShmenI of lines OF steamships to foreign ports.
We agree also with Nj Carlisle that The pollt-
1cal and civil rights OF The humblest citizen in
every section are to be respected. We mean to
secure that respect Mhen we get the power TO
make laws ami the power to administer them
Dy presenting as criminal the man WAC ~
srades by violence or by fraud. We think one OF
these rights is to vote for congressman or Tor
President and have that vote counted We al
SO agree with Ar. Carlisle in our respect for To-
cal self-gOyernnaent, OF which, as he does us
elustice to say, Ctr GWn town meetings are
the best example in history The men whom
these meetings have trained fplly understand
Iheir value. Mr.. Carlisle will lind. when he
com es to understand the subject. that the men
20 whom the local self-goNernment Gf New
Engie ad owes its character and It's fame are tbs
men who differ with him the most widely III
Eholr conception OF the duty, functions, digni-
ty and authority of the nation. They have ex-
ercised the functions OF local self government
in It's care of roads and bridges and libraries
and charities and schools IN their little democ-
s&cies, where
Each honest man shall have his vote.
Each child his school,
after a fashion from which, if the statistics OF
alilteIacy in the census may be trusted, Mr..
CsFiise's States rights neighbors in Kentucky
aoaay and something to learn. The Republican
states of New England have shown their sense
OF the blessings OF self government by the man
ner In which they have performed its duties.
They desire that the nation shall perform its
Anlies with equal fidelity. They do not think
that this great and imperial force, the united
strength of II, 600 900 freemen shodd be wasted,
They eeiieve in nation whose manufacturers
shall be known in foreign markets, and whose
tag shall be honored in foreign seas; whose cit.
lzen can cast his vote in fl eedom and honor; In
whose diplomacy the tone of supplication shall
he unknown. The New England town The best
example of self-government on earth, is and
has ever been the training school where the les
son of nationality is learned. While the town
school teaches American history and the town
meeting American FIRE edOm, the men who come
ont OF them will not place Massachusetts IN
the Democratic colum under the leadership
OF Mr.. Carlisle.